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12/29/2011

I Survived The Year With These Songs: "How Deep Is Your Love?" - The Rapture

RELIGIOUS FUNK: "How Deep Is Your Love?" The Rapture

In 2006, The Rapture transformed themselves from post-punk revivalists to dance-punk prodigies with Pieces of the People We Love. This year, The Rapture decided to upgrade their dance-punk stylings with a little help from an unlikely source: Christianity. In The Grace of Your Love is a very positive album; most of the tracks on Grace are spiritual, and draw from subjects such as lead singer Luke Jenner's relationship with his mother ("Miss You") to his feelings on fatherhood ("It Takes Time To Be A Man"). "How Deep Is Your Love?" is the band's most rapturous (sorry) song yet. It hollers, whoops, and shudders with intensity. Like a preacher leading his congregation, Jenner sings, "All the feeling I have for you, / standing in your shoes, / when I cry, you heal my pain, / help me come unglued." It's a song about longing, and one can feel those joyous feelings growing even more fainter as the song ends in a hail of hallelujahs.